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Friday, May 8, 2015

Mystery Signals from Space

It is easier to assume a local source or at least stellar distances to get rid of a number of unnecessary assumptions. At the same time the signal embeds the factor five and eleven. That makes it a pretty clear beacon that allows location confirmation. Could these be navigation tools used by space ships to confirm their location?

We are seeing these rarely because we are not always looking in the right area of the sky or looking for just this.

Such a beacon or beacons would allow superior location resolution in local space where it is likely to matter. .

Mystery Signals from Space

Scientists Have Been Receiving
Bizarre Signals from Space, and Have No Idea What They Are

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

Mystery Signals from Space: Scientists Have Been Receiving Bizarre Signals from Space, and Have No Idea What They Are

Over the
past 15 years, scientists from all over the world have been picking up strange
signals from outer space,
and they all have several factors in common. They last a fraction of a second,
and arrive with the same amount of energy our sun would emit over the course of
a month (albeit in the form of radio waves, so most of us would never notice).

What’s most
bizarre about these signals though, is that they don’t appear to line up with
any known natural phenomenon. All ten of the bursts that have been recorded
over the years, have a near identical pattern. Their “dispersion measures” are all being recorded in multiples of
the same exact number. 187.5.

Unlike most
strange phenomena however, the scientific community hasn’t been scrambling to
find a “normal” explanation. These signals are so inexplicable, that many
scientists are willing to accept the possibility that they may in fact, be coming from an alien civilization.

They
claim there is a 5 in 10,000 probability that the line-up is coincidence. “If
the pattern is real,” says Learned, “it is very, very hard to explain.”

Cosmic
objects might, by some natural but unknown process, produce dispersions in
regular steps. Small, dense remnant stars called pulsars are known to emit bursts
of radio waves, though not in regular arrangements or with as much power as
FRBs. But maybe superdense stars are mathematical oddities because of
underlying physics we don’t understand.

It’s
also possible that the telescopes are picking up evidence of human technology,
like an unmapped spy satellite, masquerading as signals from deep space.

That
just happens to be the most reasonable explanation so far. By all appearances,
this does not look natural. Each burst of energy encompasses a wide range of
the radio spectrum, and contain a massive amount of energy. They’re so
powerful, that researchers suspect that bare minimum, they are coming from
across our galaxy, with some estimates placing their origin at billions of
light years away.

On
the surface, this would lend itself to a natural phenomenon. However, the
incredibly short duration of the signal indicates that the source is probably
several hundred kilometers in size, which is far smaller than the pulsar stars
that would normally cause this kind of energy burst. And let’s not forget the disturbing
regularity the number 187.5 that shows up in this signal.

The
most tantalizing possibility is that the source of the bursts might be a who,
not a what. If none of the natural explanations pan out, their paper
concludes, “An artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.”

“Beacon
from extraterrestrials” has always been on the list of weird possible origins for these bursts.
“These have been intriguing as an engineered signal, or evidence of
extraterrestrial technology, since the first was discovered,” says Jill Tarter,
former director of the SETI Institute in California. “I’m intrigued. Stay
tuned.”

If
this is coming from an alien civilization, they would obviously be highly
advanced. To emit a signal of this magnitude would require a level of
technology that we can’t even begin to imagine. While some of the researchers
question why aliens would send out a signal on such a wide band of the radio
spectrum, to me it makes sense. If they were trying to contact another species
from across the stars, they might not know what radio frequency they’re
listening to.

Either
way, it’s safe to assume that whoever was the intended recipient of this
signal, it’s certainly not us. If it came from billions of light years away, or
even from within our own galaxy, they might even be extinct by now. The signal
was probably intended for someone in their own backyard, so to speak.

Whatever
this is, whether it’s a natural phenomenon we don’t yet understand, or if it’s
aliens, or even if it’s from some top-secret spy satellite, one thing is for
sure. The universe is one hell of a strange place, and we’re just scratching
the surface.

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